Galaxy S7 Snapdragon 820 Vs Galaxy S7 Exynos 8890 Speed Test [Video]

If you’re an average smartphone user then you could be forgiven for thinking that all variants of a specific device are exactly the same internally. As you may or may not be aware, that’s sometimes not always the case, and specifically in the case of Samsung’s new Galaxy S7, it’s most definitely not the case. This newly released video highlights that fact by putting the Snapdragon 820 powered Galaxy S7 (available in US) against the Exynos 8890 powered Galaxy S7 (available in international markets) in a head-to-head speed test.

Anyone who has watched videos of this nature will know the drill by now. The stopwatch gets started on each device at the exact same time, and then the devices are put through a series of speed test runs. The test here includes launching a variety of popular utility and gaming apps downloaded from the Google Play Store, and then running through round 2 which involves launching the same apps again, but this time from the multitasking area of the operating system to see how well each device handles keeping processes in memory.

After the initial launch of the first three apps, which were the Camera app, the Gallery app, and the system Settings app on the S7, it becomes immediately apparent that the Exynos 8890 jumps into an initial lead and looks to be almost one app launch ahead of the Snapdragon 820 variant. Although the Exynos variant remains one app ahead of the Snapdragon model, it’s interesting to see that the Snapdragon variant does make some ground up when rendering a video file in the Lapse It Pro app.

After the first round of app launches, which also included ending on the Amazon website and loading both mobile and full versions of the site, the Galaxy S7 with the integrated Exynos 8890 processor managed to finish a full 10 seconds ahead of its Snapdragon 820 counterpart.

There was a chance for the Snapdragon 820 model to win the second round by being extremely performant in recalling apps from the background. Alas, that didn’t happen, with the Exynos 8890 completing both rounds in 2 minutes and 3 seconds, and the Snapdragon 820 version falling 38 seconds behind with a total two-lap time of 2 minutes and 41 seconds.

And 300 dollars cheaper, yes I know they don’t compete in the same category, I wouldn’t even consider the SE flagship, but it does say A LOT.

Also, better battery life.

Don’t get me wrong, I do like the S7, the camera is awesome, the design is probably the nicest in a while, and the screen is superb but this sort of thing shouldn’t happen.

Timmy

This is funny, because everyone was complaining about the S6 getting the Exynos in the USA instead of the Snapdragon…and now the S7 comes with Snapdragon and everyone is mad that it’s slower…FYI…common sense is that a Samsung device probably runs better with a Samsung brain.

Sachin

Well redmondpie really got it right this time as Apple iPhones have the most outdated hardware and software . Good to compare Samsung with Samsung

Major Sceptic

Not really , you get what you pay for, the S7 is a proper flagship, full of features, and it’s pushing a beautiful screen that has 577 pixels, the SE is a poverty pack that only has to drive 326 pixels.
Should the SE be a tad faster than the S7 that is still very quick , who cares ?

Shinonuke

You’re right. At this speed, it doesn’t matter so is faster anymore. Speed used to be a think in the past because the phones were so slow. What I care the most right now is battery life, the screen, camera, and low crashes from the OS system.

Stephen

Think about it like this; Samsung processors are octa-core (eight core) units. Whereas Apple processors are dual-core (two core) units. If you’ve ever run a Geekbench on both devices, you’ll see that they are in league with each other, Apple’s A9 for the 6S and Samsung’s Exynos 7420 for the S6, scoring at, give or take, 4450.
You’d be eating your words if Apple found it necessary to add an additional six more cores to their processors. That would blow Samsung’s lame ass processor out of the water three fold.

Mityo Yaroslavov

If Apple made 8 core chip with the same twister cores from A9 you will have battery for few hours? SD820 is 4 cores and is better than SD810 with 8 cores. Why did you think the number of cores is so important?

Stephen

Because it is important… Of course the SD820 will be more efficient with less cores. The SD810 is last year’s news, for every year that passes, technology advances exponentially. Not only that, the SD810 also had many issues. More cores equals more distribution of task computations and efficiency to execute commands at will/random. The processor is one of the most important components of a logic board, so too are the cores that assist the processor in it’s duties. I take it you don’t see the logic in why I think an Apple processor with more cores would be faster than the competition..?